Medicinal prospects of antioxidants: A review

K Neha, MR Haider, A Pathak, MS Yar - European journal of medicinal …, 2019 - Elsevier
Free radicals generated due to exposure of radiation, environmental pollutants and as by-
products of metabolised drugs. These free radicals are antagonized by molecules which are …

The Role of Macrophages in Staphylococcus aureus Infection

GR Pidwill, JF Gibson, J Cole, SA Renshaw… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Staphylococcus aureus is a member of the human commensal microflora that exists,
apparently benignly, at multiple sites on the host. However, as an opportunist pathogen it …

Macrophage defense mechanisms against intracellular bacteria

G Weiss, UE Schaible - Immunological reviews, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Macrophages and neutrophils play a decisive role in host responses to intracellular bacteria
including the agent of tuberculosis (TB), M ycobacterium tuberculosis as they represent the …

An overlooked and underrated endemic mycosis—Talaromycosis and the pathogenic fungus Talaromyces marneffei

F Wang, RH Han, S Chen - Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Talaromycosis is an invasive mycosis endemic in tropical and subtropical Asia and is
caused by the pathogenic fungus Talaromyces marneffei. Approximately 17,300 cases of T …

Nutritional immunity: transition metals at the pathogen–host interface

MI Hood, EP Skaar - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2012 - nature.com
Transition metals occupy an essential niche in biological systems. Their electrostatic
properties stabilize substrates or reaction intermediates in the active sites of enzymes, and …

Synthesis of nickel nanoparticles by a green and convenient method as a magnetic mirror with antibacterial activities

MR Ahghari, V Soltaninejad, A Maleki - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
In this work, a simple protocol was described for the synthesis of nickel magnetic mirror
nanoparticles (NMMNPs) including antibacterial activities. The identification of NMNPs was …

Concentration and adsorption of Pb and Cu in microplastics: case study in aquatic environment

AIS Purwiyanto, Y Suteja, PS Ningrum, WAE Putri… - Marine pollution …, 2020 - Elsevier
Microplastics are proven as heavy metals vector, but the adsorption mechanism still unclear.
This study investigated the adsorption of Pb and Cu in microplastics in the Musi River and …

The 100-genomes strains, an S. cerevisiae resource that illuminates its natural phenotypic and genotypic variation and emergence as an opportunistic pathogen

PK Strope, DA Skelly, SG Kozmin… - Genome …, 2015 - genome.cshlp.org
Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a well-established model for species as diverse as humans and
pathogenic fungi, is more recently a model for population and quantitative genetics. S …

Metals in fungal virulence

F Gerwien, V Skrahina, L Kasper… - FEMS microbiology …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Metals are essential for life, and they play a central role in the struggle between infecting
microbes and their hosts. In fact, an important aspect of microbial pathogenesis is the …

Iron, copper, zinc, and manganese transport and regulation in pathogenic Enterobacteria: correlations between strains, site of infection and the relative importance of …

G Porcheron, A Garénaux, J Proulx, M Sabri… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
For all microorganisms, acquisition of metal ions is essential for survival in the environment
or in their infected host. Metal ions are required in many biological processes as …